Critical Role, the company behind a Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game series of the same name starring voice actors such as Matthew Mercer, Laura Bailey, Ashley Johnson, and more, is in “active pursuit” of creating a video game.
Critical Role CEO and main cast member Travis Willingham told Rolling Stone that an announcement could be imminent, though didn’t clarify if it will be an adaptation of one of its series akin to the animated show on Prime Video or something completely fresh.
“I would say it’s an active pursuit on our end,” Willingham said. “The last few years we have been having necessary conversations to figure out how to do that smartly. It’s an entire enterprise that’s separate from what we do on Beacon, Twitch, or YouTube; it’s separate from the animated series and it comes with its [own] understanding that has to be undertaken.
“Those are all things that we’ve been actively pursuing. But the concise way of saying it is that we are starting to come to the end of a long road that we’ve been undertaking for the last couple of years.
“Hopefully we’ll have something really exciting to share, maybe around the end of the year, maybe at the beginning of 2025, just in time for our 10-year anniversary. But it’s something we’ve definitely had our minds on.
“Those collaborations we’ve had with various partners have been little toe dips in the pool just to see how it feels. You know, there’s a lot of upheaval in the interactive space right now. And we’ve seen studios sort of bear and weather those strains. It’s trying to become smarter about it and find out how we might fit into that larger ecosystem.”
Critical Role began in March 2015 as a video series through Geek & Sundry, though went independent in 2019. The show follows the adventures of the cast’s own D&D game, and while they’re now in the third full campaign, countless spin-offs and specials have been released over the years.
This has included expansions into other games, with Critical Role even developing its own tabletop RPG called Daggerheart, and the aforementioned animated show with Prime Video.
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Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll talk about The Witcher all day.
